Spooktacular Halloween Crafts!

Wondering how you’re going to keep the kids entertained this Halloween season? It only seems like yesterday we were waving them off on their first day, and now they’re home again!

We’ve put together some super simple and super fun Halloween crafts ideas, to make your house the spoooooookiest house on the block!

Ghostly Slime Pot

You Will Need

1 pot of Pip & Pear, any size – we think Stage 2 would work perfectly!

1 bottle of PVA glue

1/2 tablespoon of baking soda

1 and 1/2 tablespoon of contact lens solution

Ghostly Slime Pot

Pour 170g of PVA glue into a glass bowl

Add half a tablespoon of baking soda into the bowl and mix. If you want really stretchy slime, add in one tablespoon of water.

Add in your contact lens solution (Note make sure the contact lens solution has boric acid as this is what reacts with the glue to make the slime). Add in gradually until you get to the consistency you want.

While the paint is drying, draw out bat wings on the the card and cut them out.

Once the tube is dry, stick the wings onto the back.

Cut out some cute little ears from the black card. Stick these to the top of the tube.

Stick some googly eyes on and draw and big smiley mouth.

Use the hole punch to put two holes at the bottom of the tube – this is where the legs will go.

Cut the pipe cleaners in half – or your bat will look like an octopus! Twist each of the pipe cleaners through each hole. To make the bats little feet, cut the last inch off the pipe cleaner and wrap this around the bottom of the wire so it looks like three little claws.

Spider-Handprint

You Will Need

1 Black piece of card

2 Some googly eyes

3 Scissors

4 String

5 Optional: Black Glitter glue

Spider-handprint

Fold a black piece of card in half so it’s around A5 size (if using larger paper than A4, just fold the paper again)

Trace around four finger on the folded edge of the paper

Cut around the fingers – it’s starting to look spiderific already!

Stick some googly eyes to the top of the spider (if you can find small googly eyes, make sure to stick on loads to look extra creepy!)

Attach a piece of string to the back of the spider so it can be hung up.

If you have some – use black glitter glue along the edges of the legs to make them look hairy!

Lollipop Stick Webs

You Will Need

Lollipop Sticks

Glue

Different coloured paints, black and orange are great Halloween colours!

String/Yarn/Wool

Scissors

Optional – little plastic spiders

Standing Spiders

Glue three lollipop sticks together in a star shape and wait for them to dry.

Paint your lollipop sticks with your poster paint.

Once this paint has dried, cut off a long piece of wool/string/yarn.

Tie one end to the inside of the lollipop stick.

Go around the lollipop sticks by going over one stick, under the next stick, over the next, under the next and so on.

Once you have gone all the way around your lovely web, tie to the end and leave a long piece of string to hang up.

If you want, stick a few plastic spiders to your web to make it really life like!

Mysterious Mummy

You Will Need

1 Stage 3 pot of Pip & Pear/Cardboard cut out of person shape

White or black paint

Google eyes

String/gauze/white tissue paper

Mysterious Mummy

Paint the pot either black or white, whichever you prefer

Leave dry

Stick on googly eyes

Wrap the tube with string, remembering to move around the eyes so they pop out!

Real Life Flying Witch!

What you’ll need:

Paper plate

black, grey and yellow paint

paintbrushes

A cup

Pencil

Big Lollypop/craft stick

Regular lollipop stick

Black and green card

Orange and white string/yarn/wool

Small googly eye

Black marker, scissors, glue

knife – for the adults!

Real Life Flying Witch!

Trace the rim of the cup on the paper plate. This will be your moon! Paint this a yellow colour and then paint the remainder of the plate grey. Then paint the big lollipop/craft stick grey and leave to dry.

While waiting for that to dry you can begin to put together your witch!

Cut around 1.5 inch circle from the green card (this will be the face) and a triangle shape (this will be for the nose).

Cut out a witches hat and dress from the black card.

Glue the orange string/yarn/wool to the side of the green circle for the hair.

Glue the hat to the top of the head and the dress to the bottom of the head.

Pop on the googly eye and nose. Then draw a mouth for your witch!

Now it’s time to assemble your witches broom!

Cut around 4 or 5 short pieces of the white string/yarn/wool. These will be the bristles of your broom. Make sure one is longer than the others in order to tie a knot.

Glue the shorter pieces to the end of the lollipop stick. Then wrap the longer piece around the stick and stuck on wool and knot together.

Make sure it looks broom like by trimming the ends with your scissors.

Glue the witch onto the broom. Then glue the whole thing onto the large craft/lollipop stick.

Cut a slit along the bottom of the plate, around 1/3 of the way in the middle.